Box 7A

Scope and Contents This binder contains numerous individual manuscripts written while Burroughs lived in the famous Beat Hotel in Paris, from 1959 to 1962. Burroughs showed up at Brion Gysin's Rembrandt Hotel show in 1953. They became inseparable and moved from Tangier to Paris in 1959, which was the beginning of the Beat Hotel period and the discovery of the cut-ups. Included in the folder are some 120 pp. of typescripts and holographs manuscripts, most of which are heavily...

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2 pp. routine, initialed by Burroughs, approximately 300 words, written in 1960-1961. An unpublished story which takes place in a barroom in Mexico City.

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8 pp. unpublished short story, typed, signed by the author on the first page, approximately 2500 words altogether. This short story, which dates from the early 1960s, begins: Jerry Wentworth was a strikingly good-looking young man. Not being stupid he took his good looks into account. It was an asset and he knew it. An atypical, predominately heterosexual routine.

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4 pp. story, signed by Burroughs. This story dates from the same period as Jerry Wentworth. Approximately 1500 words altogether, completely unpublished.

Scope and Contents 4 pp. story, signed twice by Burroughs on the first and last page, approximately 2500 words. This story, which dates from the same period as the previous two stories listed begins: The desk clerk thought the man looked ill. Immediately after being shown to his room he called the desk and asked for the busyboy and sent him to the all night pharmacy to buy some medicine. Half an hour later he passed the clerk on the way to the bar jaunty and smiling. Whatever the medicine was...

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2 pp. story, signed by Burroughs, dating from the same period as the previous stories, approximately 750 words. This story, which is unpublished, begins You sure is a good man boss. You sure is a fair white man. However, the fraud came to light and the fair white man was dumpted into the Hudson in a barrel of concrete after the strict code of the underworld. After that, the bounty hunters were required to produce severed genitals as proof of performance.

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2 pp. story, signed by Burroughs, dating from the same period as the above, autobiographical in nature. This unpublished work consists of approximately 1500 words.

Scope and Contents 9 pp. story, signed by Burroughs, dating from the same period as previous stories. This piece, which is unpublished, is autobiographical in nature and concerns Burroughs' childhood in elementary school years. The story beings After that John Burroughs School I never quite found the sensitive old lady English teacher who molded my future career I wrote at that time Edgar Allen Poe things like old men in forgotten places very flowery and sentimental too that flavor of high...

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2 pp. typescript, signed by Burroughs, dating from the same period as the previous materials. This autobiographical fragment which is unpublished and which consists of approximately 300 words, begins: The name is Bill Burroughs. I am a writer. Let me tell you a few things about my job.

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2 pp. routine, signed by Burroughs, possibly published, approximately 200 words. The MS bears number of holograph corrections through the text and dates from the same period as above.